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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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